WHAT WE CARRY

WHAT WE CARRY is the culmination of more than a decade of conversations with existence. A running dialogue with life itself — and everything it entails.

It’s both mirror and response, reflecting back and on a world that’s never quite what it seems and has more shades of gray than we tend to believe.

WHAT WE CARRY is an open-ended question and an invitation — to reflect on both our collective experience and our internal life.

This curation attempts to be a pause in the age of noise, a question in an era of uncertainty.

One, nearly 15 years in the making.

Meet the Artist: Jairo Cortes-Marin

Jairo Cortes-Marin is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice spans photography, text, and painting. Working primarily in black and white, his work explores the quiet tensions between identity, memory, time, and collective experience. Rooted in both introspection and observation, Cortes-Marin’s images often move between abstraction and documentary, resisting easy resolution in favor of sustained inquiry.

Over the past decade, his practice has evolved through a range of independent bodies of work that examine how personal and social histories are carried, inherited, and reinterpreted. In parallel with his studio practice, Cortes-Marin has contributed to exhibitions, publications, and large-scale curatorial projects across the contemporary art and digital art spaces, collaborating with artists and institutions internationally.

WHAT WE CARRY marks his first solo exhibition, bringing together works created across multiple periods of his practice. The exhibition reflects an ongoing commitment to creation as a means of questioning — an open-ended dialogue with the world, shaped by curiosity, restraint, and lived experience.